Abstract
This chapter will focus on the rapid expansion of heavy timber construction in the Upper Midwest in the period immediately following the Great Chicago Fire. It was a time of exponential urban and industrial growth, fueled largely by flour. As a result, heavy timber mills began springing up in many milling cities, both large and small. This chapter, aside from documenting stylistic and design alterations and even the fire survivability of the type, will also highlight how heavy timber construction was able to cast off its industrial identity and find life in seemingly unusual occupancy forms. This chapter will effectively chronicle the zenith of heavy timber construction.
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Scott F. Anfinson, ‘Archaeology at the Riverfront: Unearthing the Invisible.’ Minnesota Historical Society, (2003), p. 322.
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‘Solid Geometry: The Pickwick Mill .’ Preservation Matters, 8 (1992), pp. 1, 7.
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Paul R. Fossum, ‘Early Milling in the Cannon River Valley .’ Minnesota Historical Society, (Northfield: Carleton College, 1930), pp. 274–275.
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Alison Watts, ‘The Technology That Launched a City.’ Minnesota Historical Society, (Minneapolis: Minnesota History, 2000), p. 88.
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J. A. F., ‘Checking the Fire Fiend.’ Scientific American, XXXIV.17 (1876), p. 261.
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H. J. Ramsdell, ‘Fireproof Materials.’ Scientific American, XXV.25 (1871), p. 385.
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Watts, p. 94.
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Watts, p. 94.
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‘Explosions of Flour Dust.’ New York Evangelist, 23 January 1879, p. 7.
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‘Terrible Explosion.’ New England Farmer, and Horticultural Register, 11 May 1878, p. 2.
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S. F. Peckham, ‘On the Explosion of the Flouring Mills at Minneapolis.’ American Journal of Science and Arts, 16.94 (1878), p. 301.
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‘The Largest Flour Mill in the World.’ Scientific American, XLI.19 (1879), p. 291.
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Watts, p. 87.
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Anfinson, p. 327.
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Penny A. Petersen, and Marjorie Pearson, Architecture and Historic Preservation on the Minneapolis Riverfront, (Minneapolis: Hess, Rose, 2007), pp. 39–43.
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Cynthia Longswisch, National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Cupples Warehouse District , (St. Louis: Landmarks Association of St. Louis, 1985), p. 2.
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Longswisch, p. 9.
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Longswisch, p. 9.
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Matthew Bivens, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Crunden-Martin Manufacturing Company, (St. Louis: Landmarks Association of St. Louis, 2004), pp. 5–12.
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Robert M. Frame, III, ‘Mills, Machines, and Millers.’ Minnesota Sources for Flour-Milling Research, (Minneapolis: Minnesota History, 1978), p. 152.
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Heitz, J. (2016). Heavy Timber in the Midwest. In: Fire Resistance in American Heavy Timber Construction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32128-8_4
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